Anyone running one that can recommend a particular brand to use Netflix and YouTube on the screen. While parked of course.

 

Hmm - I’d be interested too. For my passengers, of course.

 

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I use something a lot simpler


Incredibly faster and more reliable than Ford’s wireless OR wired interface. But this does NOT support AndroidAuto at all. The alternate product is much more advanced so should. It also appears to have the option of integrating cameras which might make it a game changer for me. With Ford OEM with or without the Amazon product I note above I can configure my large screen to allow navigation (Ford or CarPlay) and leave the right side of the screen to watch the bed camera (for what!) when I really want to watch traffic behind the expensive ford trailer camera for my 5th wheel camper. I don’t want to waste the entire screen on watching traffic behind, nor divert my attention to toggle between them. Ford has missed this in 4 successive years (150’s from which the software was developed cannot pull 5th wheels). The product advertised may finally allow it.

I know that not many have heads up display, but I do. One note. If you use hardwire connection to phone, and it connects properly, Carplar will display turn by turn directions in heads up and on screen above the steering wheel IF using Apple Maps. It will not if using Waze or Google Maps. It will not if using Ford’s wireless connection. Using the Amazon product to connect wirelessly, there is no heads up or steering wheels screen turn by turn, but everything else works.

My CarPlay connectivity with Ford system has never been good, but with wife’s phone in car it seems that Ford cannot make up its mind so connects neither. I solved this with two of the Amazon products, plugging the appropriate one in before day of travel.

 

Before you go too far down this road, there’s some video functionality coming to CarPlay with ios26. That’s coming in September. It hadn’t been enabled yet for the betas, last I heard. I will try it out with the public beta this weekend and report back.

It may or may not work with our trucks, as it depends on how they have the CarPlay integration is setup. It has to tell the phone whether you're parked or not. If it doesn’t get that signal, it won’t play the video.


https://www.techradar.com/phones/iph...theres-a-catch

 

Interesting, I guess I'll wait. Maybe forscan will fix that one small issue.

 

I did end up trying it this weekend on the latest Apple beta, but I wasn’t able to get it to work. On the other hand, I also tried an HDMI to CarPlay adapter with some success. Only problem with it was it doesn’t expand to take up the whole display. So, the video was scrunched into the left side of the display. Still watchable, but not perfect. Technically this works while in motion as well.